GlitterInfection @ GlitterInfection @lemmy.world Posts 3Comments 974Joined 2 yr. ago
Kids out of college who are grateful that they're being given a chance to follow their passion don't think they have collective bargaining power, and the people who stay in the industry tend to do so because they enjoy pain.
Do you count prequels as spin-off shows? Both Better Call Saul and House of the Dragon are considered to be excellent and successful if so.
The fediverse has a built-in search engine?
I can only comment on my experience searching for communities in lemmy and people to follow on mastadon, but in both cases I am not sure I'd say "works quite well" would describe my experience.
But also that's not what I think OP was talking about.
They want a search engine for a random fact like google. It's been long true that you need to add "reddit" to the end of any google search to find the info you needed.
It'd be nice to have a fediverse alternative.
Well, by now they've probably seen all the films.
If it happened a long time ago in a galaxy far far away and has made it to our backwater planet, then it must be pretty widely popular.
Source?
The article contains videos. There are examples of apps that some of the companies have released.
Seems like, yes, they do.
Additionally, the zone would only be active during outdoor events specifically permitted by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
Although the ABC permits outdoor events to serve alcohol, outside vendors typically provide these services, meaning existing businesses don’t get much benefit from those events.
Ok, so this is effectively a non-change, and the article mangled it entirely.
SB 76 would allow municipalities to designate temporary Entertainment Zones in which brick-and-mortar bars and restaurants could sell alcohol to-go on equal footing with the festival’s licensed vendors.
From the website of the bill's author.
The city can declare a temporary entertainment zone during an event which lets bars compete with vendors during the event.
It's a good thing. But it in no way changes things for the people attending the event.
We aren't setting up a Bourbon street or vegas strip situation, even though we totally should.
Edit: Also, the article says:
For one, the city first has to introduce and pass legislation to establish a framework that defines and allows the designation of entertainment zones. The ordinance would also have to revise local open container laws to make the outdoor drinking zone legal.
Why would they need to pass laws to do this when it passed at the state level? It already is legal to drink on any street at any event with the same permit this requires.
Such a strange article.
I don't know what a movie about product placement has to do with Halloween.
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The link seemed to work for me from lemmy. I see three posts there when I click it at least.
They felt extremely small, too.
Because they are extremely tiny.
I hear what you are saying, and while I don't fully agree that she's inherently unlikable, I understand why you're saying that you find her to be so. I mostly was asking you to question your assumptions on it, and I used some charged up language that wasn't meant as a knock at the show.
To elaborate, what I meant was that the show exaggerates her mannerisms to give Walt motivation rather than to create a fully fleshed out character. She's not a woman, but a symbol of how men have become emasculated by their wives' "wearing the pants" in the family. At least early on she's not much more than a framing device and justification for Walt's decisions.
She grows as a character, and ends up having more agency, but only in the confines of Walt's domination of their lives with his selfishly motivated, and traditionally toxic masculine, choices.
And I don't think you meant it this way, but you can't really easily separate disliking her from being a woman. I don't mean to imply that you dislike her because she's a woman, but that her character's role is to be a controlling wife. It's an inherently gendered character that relies heavily on preconceptions of what a woman should and shouldn't be in a relationship with a man who is a main character in a story.
I think it's telling that she is considered unlikable enough to even warrant discussing in a show where the main character is a multi-murderer monster who destroyed the lives of everyone he loved, and the main villains include nazis, cartels, lawyers and corporate shills.
That, for anyone, she's the most hated character on the show is enough for me to take a minute and question my assumptions on her, at least. So I thought it was worth pushing back on your comment asking you, and others reading, to do the same.
For the click-bait avoiders: the issue the article mentions is that some iPhones' alarms aren't going off.
This has been an issue in the past for me as well, so I hope they fix it fully.
Sorry, I should have said that Skyler, the character, did nothing to deserve being disliked. The show was rigged to make you dislike her, in the sense that the storytelling was solely through Walt's eyes, even in scenes he wasn't present for.
But I didn't say that. Vince Gilligan, creator of the show, said it.
I also called it a "power fantasy." The show's pitch was to show a man turning himself from "Mr. Chips to Scarface." It's not a criticism, I loved the show. It took the power fantasy tropes and subverted them frequently. But at its heart that's what it is.
If you're upset that I said that it was about toxic masculinity, then I apologize. That was reductive of me. It explores hegemonic masculinity through the power fantasy trope, and it can be interpreted as either a celebration of or criticism of toxic masculinity depending on how you approach it.
Plenty of more well reasoned people than I could hope to be have written in depth on the subject. Someone even wrote a book in the subject.
If you were reacting to thinking I was putting the show down, which I wasn't intending to do, then my bad. I could have worded it better. I was trying to make the point that it's both intentional to not like Skyler, and also the obvious wrong take to not like her.
In the realm of toxic masculinity power fantasies there is no room for a woman who acts kind of like a normal person.
The show was written to make you root for Walt and dislike Skylar because of that, but is she really that unlikeable if you step back and look at her actions and motivations?
Edit: Sorry for being terse and using charged language in this comment.
I'm a fan of Breaking Bad. I wasn't trying to put it down or to say that people disliker Skyler because she's a woman.
Upthread I clarified things a bit, hopefully.
I prefer the term "Wesley Crusher" over the term "Mary Sue" to describe that type of character.
Plus back before the woke liberal agenda took over the media he was always talking about "boners" which I can relate to.
I used to be very picky about movies as a teenager, and tended towards more odd, surreal, films that I could find. For a long time Brazil was my favorite movie and Twin Peaks my favorite show.
I was very closed minded and my first boyfriend's sister referred to me as "the movie nazi" because I did not like Will Farrell, Adam Sandler, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, and lots of other mainstream successful people.
Now I am much more open to movies of all types, and I will watch movies with actors and actresses I have pre-biased towards distaste.
My favorite movie is now Everything Everywhere All At Once, and favorite show is too many to choose from, but probably Adventure Time.
Just to echo, LG's smart tv is an ad platform just like the rest of them, and it's gross.
My joke answer is to directly tell them that they are not allowed to come on your lawn, to not let their kids do the same, and that it's your property, not a zoo.
This way you'll guarantee that your house is egged often enough that some of the eggs may not break, and some subset of those could be adopted by the ducks and hatched into baby birds that the kids also won't be able to come look at.
I read the nice summary and that all seems reasonable to expect before being able to even remotely imply these things have any value as a mental health supporting tool.
AI therapists seem like a bad idea as a gut feeling to me, to be honest.
But thinking on it beyond my gut feeling, I recalled how my parents reacted 25 years ago when I told my them I was struggling with suicidal depression and pointed to an advertisement for prozac that described the things things I was going through.
My dad told me about how the advertisers were just trying to make a buck, and the doctors were paid to prescribe things and didn't care about my health, then my mom secretly behind his back put me on echinacea supplements.
In comparison it's hard to imagine an AI doing worse than that.
So gut feeling or no, and potentially pitfalls or no, this could be a tool to help people who can't otherwise get that help, and that has me hopeful.